Tom Sewell

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning. It smells like victory.

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning. It smells like victory.

Well spotted. Also a better place for a fight than inside the building with all the boxes full of supposedly inert but now fully functioning and operational magical devices.

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning. It smells like victory.

A nit to pick: Super Elliot is wearing a costume. He wasn't wearing gauntlets and boots. It's mostly like the Uryuom suit Grace  uses, but the pattern of the upper part sort of matches the jacket Elliot was wearing before transforming.
Also, not a mere "plus". The word you are looking for is "AWESOME!"

Eh, even if Magus just wanted to wake her up, Elliot's reaction is justified.
Magus conspired with a parasitic lifeform to take over Elliot's and Ellen's bodies. He didn't hesitate to squash his former ally like a bug after the inevitable betrayal.
Elliot has absolutely no reason to trust someone who's capable of doing all that and can kill with a hand gesture.

Better than better would be a timely interruption such as an alarm going off, sirens going off, Waldo wandering in and asking where he is (BTW, did you know Waldo is in Google Earth now?), Helena appearing and telling Magus he's being an ass (previous experience in ass-identification), a white rabbit with a watch wandering through, tribbles (awwww!), Carol Brown parachuting in through the broken window or hanging outside it, Phill, or everyone gets root canals.

I'm not arguing that what Magus currently believes is in Ellen's best interest is valid, but even Dan has been saying that Magus isn't currently in the right frame of mind after having spent nearly 3 years in limbo and desperate to get out, there's a lot of anger and he's jumping to conclusions using obsolete information. It doesn't make him right, but there's hope that he can be convinced of that and this can all be settled without violence or anyone dying.
The Dumbing of Age comic has had 3 major events that involved a date rapist, who once exposed tried to silence the people who exposed him; an abusive controlling father who even after being divorced without custody, still felt that he had say in what his daughter could or couldn't do with her life; and a fanatically religious father who believed his homosexual daughter could be made straight again and even entered the university grounds with a shotgun with the intent of forcing her to return home.  All three instanced ended with the men needing to be hospitalized after getting the snot kicked out of them by either the people they were trying to hurt, or friends of those people.  I'm rather sick of stories like this ending in violence and while the men in the DoA cases deserved what they got, I'd rather it not be the resolution in Magus' situation.

Well, Dan did write this entire arc around Pandora's struggle as a parent, and we have the dubious examples of Nanase and her Mom (concealing magic from her daughters and forcing them toward marriage and family), Susan's mother (blaming her own betrayal on all men), and Tedd's mother (I really don't have to explain this one, do I?). Edward definitely has his heart in the right place, but he's managed Tedd like Eisenhower managed the Cold War, making most of the the really important decisions without telling his son.
As for Ma and Pa Dunkel, Ma's the smarter one, but that's not saying a lot. They're nice and their funny and they haven't got a clue.
It's really none of my business or any of ours, but I don't remember Dan saying anything about his own family.

As for Magus' worldview (and many in our world could be accused of having the notion that one must be a certain gender to perform certain jobs as well, and no, I do not believe Dan to be one to hold this point of view, but as the father to two daughters, I feel I must let myself rant a bit at a fictional character to let off some steam generated by the idea of how many things I must try to explain to my daughters as to why it's going to be harder for them):
Let us leave aside the ability for magic to level the playing field with regards to any perceived physical differences that may exist on the average.  Let us leave aside the fact that if you consider that men may have an advantage in upper body strength (are we going to be wrestling dragons?) then you must consider that some think woman have advantages in other areas of physicality (those lovely Soviet female snipers of WWII that had such a reputation among the Nazis).  Let us look at history and start a list with but a few counterexamples to how you must be a man to be a warrior (and there are so many more):
Ng Mui.  She is said to have been a master variously of the Shaolin martial arts, the Wudang martial arts, and Yuejiaquan, the family style of Yue Fei. She is also credited as the founder of the martial arts Wǔ Méi Pài (Ng Mui style), Wing Chun, Dragon style, White Crane, and Five-Pattern Hung Kuen.
Lozen.  She was a famous warrior and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache. She was also the sister of an important chief called Victorio who described her importance during the battles: “Lozen is my right hand … strong as a man, braver than most, and cunning in strategy. Lozen is a shield to her people.”  She also fought alongside Geronimo in the last campaign of the Apache Wars.
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba.  She valiantly fought and held off Portuguese control of present-day Angola for over thirty years during the early 17th century.
Finally, even if we buy Magus' argument as valid, it still must always be our Ellen's decision.  Magus Ellen needs to take a chill pill. 

"We have a friendly Tedd. Ellen could be male if she wanted. Plus, I've grown." He says, as he turns into Cheerleadra.

Magus does have a fair point about the possibility of Ellen trying hard to convince everyone, including herself, that she's happy as a woman because she really doesn't have any choice about it.  In fact, Ellen has said outright that differentiating herself from Elliot is the source of a lot of her personality traits that differ from Ellot's.  We, and Elliot, have the advantage of knowing Ellen well and being pretty sure we can tell the difference between protesting too much and actually liking how she is now, but that doesn't mean Magus doesn't have some pretty good reasons for thinking that's the way Ellen would be reacting to things.  Even Elliot looks like he's considering the possibility of Magus being right.  Note, considering, not agreeing with,
Of course, Elliot's first comment is likely to be that they need to talk with Ellen before transforming her, so she can talk Magus out of it, which is likely how we get into Magus's reasons for being in a hurry.

Panel 5 sounds familiar.

I like how this arc and especially this comic have turned Magus from a plot device causing some conflicts into a complicated person - trying to do the right thing, but due to being from one society with faulty morals/ethics and trying to interact in another with a different set of faulty morals/ethics, is messing up - and seems a bit messed up BY said first society. An interesting show of faults in how society has often assigned gender roles and the negative effects it can have on people.
 
Edit: (Though the isolation he suffered probably is also playing a role in his current state, and I'm most certainly not applying the "right thing to BEFORE he gained a body again. Here's to hoping he gets his needed correction sooner rather than later.)
 
EDIT 2: Actually, not so sure if our society's flaws are relevant to this, re: one society acting in another.

If the ur-ellen would give them a chance, Tedd/Tess could give Ellen her own gender-change wand, making it clear that she could switch any time she really wanted to. Getting ur-ellen to understand that could be all kinds of difficult, though.
Could ur-ellen actually be really missing her feminine side, resulting in feeling envy and resentment for the double of herself that got to keep hers?

This might be an unintended consequence of Les Immortels keeping him away from the Dunkels.  He wouldn't have been there for the sort of heart-to-heart conversations Elliot and Ellen have had in their shared bedroom.
 
Elliot has only just begun accepting his own gender fluidity.  Imagine if Magus tries to shoot a spell for permanent maleness at the unconscious Ellen, and Cheerleadra interposes herself like she did for that dragon's blast?

Especially considering Magus/Ellen not only modified Ellen's beam so that he wouldn't be turned female when zapped into Elliot, but also modified the diamond to keep that form, and not make it a duplicate Elliot body. Why would he go through to trouble of doing that if he wasn't male.

Unless the building really is unmanned now, I think the chances of everyone sneaking back out have fallen to zero.

All too much sense. It does strange things to the human mind to spend your time in complete isolation. Escape from that, no matter how strange the company, fills an essential need. It is difficult to see how he could have reacted otherwise.

Obviously Magus' real name is Agiltanius Aristophanes Aloysius Antoninus Abraxas-Abalamahalamatandra.

I've speculated before that Adrian's main magic weapon spell isn't to summon a magic weapon, but to enchant a physical weapon into a magical one. In that case, he wouldn't have to worry as much about his weapon breaking in the middle of the fight, but he would need a weapon in the first place, which he didn't have at the mall (Fighting aberrations is not a common occurrence). Though he does have at least one spell that summons a magical attack, his Murder Shroud. Unfortunately, that's a heavily telegraphed attack, so it's unlikely to work well if the target knows what the spell does.

Tony is Elliot's enemy in the main universe, they don't really go out of each other's way to fight, though Tony has constantly bullied Tedd throughout both elementary and secondary school and Elliot's been there to defend Tedd, what if it's an even more heated rivalry between Magus and his universe's version of Tony. In the "Night Out" story it was implied that Tony was attracted to Tedd, and in the "Oblivious Wand Waving" non-canon story, Tony is seen admiring Tess, what if Tony's alternate in Magus' universe had a thing for Terra and wanted Magus out of the way to get to her?

Okay, we've learned these new things in today's comic:
Magus paid attention in class at Battle Mage University (BMU). Magus qualifies as a Hunter in the Moperverse Ashley can scream at least as loud as Screaming Girl and that girl being chased by the vampire Susan killed at the mall. Some of the windows on the second floor do have glass in them (or did) Magus just knocked around a bunch of crates containing magical items that are no longer inactive. But that's probably not going to be a problem or anything, is it?

Okay, we've learned these new things in today's comic:
Magus paid attention in class at Battle Mage University (BMU). Magus qualifies as a Hunter in the Moperverse Ashley can scream at least as loud as Screaming Girl and that girl being chased by the vampire Susan killed at the mall. Some of the windows on the second floor do have glass in them (or did) Magus just knocked around a bunch of crates containing magical items that are no longer inactive. But that's probably not going to be a problem or anything, is it?

Okay, we've learned these new things in today's comic:
Magus paid attention in class at Battle Mage University (BMU). Magus qualifies as a Hunter in the Moperverse Ashley can scream at least as loud as Screaming Girl and that girl being chased by the vampire Susan killed at the mall. Some of the windows on the second floor do have glass in them (or did) Magus just knocked around a bunch of crates containing magical items that are no longer inactive. But that's probably not going to be a problem or anything, is it?